31 Quotes by Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.